Radiology is the bottleneck nobody wants to talk about. Emergency departments run faster triage algorithms. Oncologists have molecular diagnostics. But in imaging, a physician orders a study, the image sits in a worklist, and somebody eventually has to read it. That somebody is increasingly hard to find, increasingly busy, and increasingly asked to read more with less time per case.
A new Neiman Health Policy Institute study put numbers to what radiologists already know. Outpatient imaging interpretation turnaround times more than doubled between 2014 and 2023 - a 113 percent increase across 2.6 million studies. CT scan turnaround times rose 318 percent over that period. MR imaging climbed 256 percent. Ultrasound went up 140 percent. Even plain radiographs - the fastest modality to read - increased 63 percent. The steepest portion of that curve happened in the last two years of the study. The hockey stick is real and accelerating.
Into that gap, Aidoc on June 25, 2026 announced that the…
